2012 seems like a good year to upgrade your operating system, according to DICE. Johan Andersson, a rendering architect for the studio's Frostbite 2 engine announced via Twitter that some games in the future will require a 64-bit OS. "If you are on 32-bit, great opportunity to upgrade to Windows 8," he added. It's not know what games he was referring to, but this could include any number of popular upcoming PC titles from DICE, Battlefield 4 or Bad Company 3, for example.

I agree that it's about time they started doing this. Though that means I'll have to upgrade from Vista 32-bit (unless there's a way to install the 64-bit version legit, if so please tell me, I have Vista 32-bit legit OEM from when my brother and mum bought this computer at Aldi) and I don't really wanna get a new OS for this computer, it's not good enough to deserve it imo.

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"..hiding your [story] beneath endless layers of confusion doesn’t make you an artist, it just makes people think you are."- Gameshadow

exe3 wrote:I agree that it's about time they started doing this. Though that means I'll have to upgrade from Vista 32-bit (unless there's a way to install the 64-bit version legit, if so please tell me, I have Vista 32-bit legit OEM from when my brother and mum bought this computer at Aldi) and I don't really wanna get a new OS for this computer, it's not good enough to deserve it imo.

A Windows 7 product key is valid for your Windows version and NOT your chosen Windows architecture. Whether or not this is the case with Vista you will have investigate for yourself.

The thing is though that as I said I have an OEM copy that came with my computer and my disc has never asked for a cdkey when i've reformatted. There is that Microsoft sticker at the back of my computer though. Does that mean I have to get some sort of OEM copy? Also was the cdkey hardcoded into the disc by any chance given that I didn't need to put the number in in the past?

*Insert negative stuff here.*

"..hiding your [story] beneath endless layers of confusion doesn’t make you an artist, it just makes people think you are."- Gameshadow

exe3 wrote:The thing is though that as I said I have an OEM copy that came with my computer and my disc has never asked for a cdkey when i've reformatted. There is that Microsoft sticker at the back of my computer though. Does that mean I have to get some sort of OEM copy? Also was the cdkey hardcoded into the disc by any chance given that I didn't need to put the number in in the past?

most likely yes. But IIRC correctly you can still get that key from the sticker and install from a different disk.. you MAY just have to get the OEM disk rather then a standard disk..

Really i don't think it'll make much of a difference what CD you install it from. But i may be wrong on this..

OEM disks are usually pre-configured installs thus your CD keys / drivers and extras are pre-installed on the disk and install process